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SN 56.1PTS SN 5.4141 min read

Immersion

Samādhisutta

Mendicants should develop immersion so as to understand the four noble truths: suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.1Linked Discourses 56.1
  • 0.21. Samādhivagga1. Immersion

0.3SamādhisuttaImmersion

1.1PTS 5.414Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

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1.3“Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha.“Mendicants, develop immersion.11.4Samāhito, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.A mendicant who has immersion truly understands.1.5Kiñca yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti?What do they truly understand?1.6‘Idaṁ dukkhan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti, ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.They truly understand: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’.1.7Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha.Develop immersion.1.8Samāhito, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.A mendicant who has immersion truly understands.

2.1Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.That’s why you should practice meditation to understand: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’.”

2.2Paṭhamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. This Sutta and the next parallel SN 22.5 and SN 22.6 respectively.

    ↩ sn56.1:1.3